Mthly Throughline

143 IS A PARTY AND EVERYONE IS INVITED! Katy Perry has officially launched an exciting new era with the long awaited sixth studio album, 143. Katy set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic 143 numerical expression of love as a throughline message. The result is a sexy, fearless, return to form for the multifaceted musician with an album jam packed with the empowering, sexy, and provocative pop anthems you've come to love. This is an album with a lot of heart and a lot of BPM. Get ready to pop off!

Big Loud Records heavy hitter HARDY, crowned “Nashville’s nü-metal king” by the Los Angeles Times, is set to release his first ever full album rock project, Quit!!, on July 12. The long-awaited LP features singles “ROCKSTAR,” currently climbing at rock radio, “PSYCHO” and title track “QUIT!!” HARDY soared to new heights in 2023 with the release of his critically acclaimed half-country, half-rock sophomore album the mockingbird & THE CROW, adding to 4.6 billion career streams. The 17-track effort debuted top five all-genre on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and topped seven additional Billboard charts in its first week, including Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Album Sales. The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. HARDY has written 15 #1 singles including game-changing two-times Platinum duet “wait in the truck” feat. Lainey Wilson and first-ever rock radio #1 “JACK.” He’s previously toured with Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and more.

Big Loud Records heavy hitter HARDY, crowned “Nashville’s nü-metal king” by the Los Angeles Times, is set to release his first ever full album rock project, Quit!!, on July 12. The long-awaited LP features singles “ROCKSTAR,” currently climbing at rock radio, “PSYCHO” and title track “QUIT!!” HARDY soared to new heights in 2023 with the release of his critically acclaimed half-country, half-rock sophomore album the mockingbird & THE CROW, adding to 4.6 billion career streams. The 17-track effort debuted top five all-genre on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and topped seven additional Billboard charts in its first week, including Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Album Sales. The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. HARDY has written 15 #1 singles including game-changing two-times Platinum duet “wait in the truck” feat. Lainey Wilson and first-ever rock radio #1 “JACK.” He’s previously toured with Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and more.

On its third full-length Remembering The Rockets, Strange Ranger continues to excel attranslating the way intimacy can feel so overwhelmingly gigantic. With a dozen releasesacross its 10 years as a band, the Philly-via-Portland-via-Montana group has traversedgenres, moods and textures while maintaining one important throughline: an explorationof closeness.2016s double-LP Rot Forever was a 72-minute freakout that paired Built To Spill grandiositywith early Modest Mouse intensity.

In Russian musicologist Henry Orlov’s book Tree of Music, a chapter titled “A River Without Banks” details a throughline between several types of sacred music, including Gregorian chants, Indian ragas, African drumming, and Indonesian gamelan. Orlov argues that art allows people to become participants in a “higher reality” and experience “symbolically significant change.” Leo Svirsky first learned about music’s transcendent qualities from his childhood piano teacher Irena Orlov, Henry Orlov’s wife. Following her death last year, Svirsky affectionately wrote that she taught him “how music is alive, how when we play music we tell someone’s story.” Dedicated to Irena and borrowing its title from Henry’s writing, River Without Banks is a minimalistic piano record that’s informed by the Orlovs’ grand musical philosophy—Svirsky’s monument to the importance of their teachings.